It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universa...l than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The conclusion has never changed: the worst sort of people come here for the worst sort of reasons and put upon those of us who ha...ve conveniently forgotten where we came from and how we got here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is easy after a day full of hassles to experience a child as being just one more hassle, one more person who wants to sap our s...trength. We feel emotionally fragile and put upon. We long to have someone take care of us and soothe our emotions. Instead, we are required to take care of a child who might be exhausted and needy as well, and who is acting unreasonable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Who are our true rulers? The Negro poets, to be sure. Do they not set the fashion, and give laws to the public taste? Let one of t...hem, in the swamps of Carolina, compose a new song, and it no sooner reaches the ear of a white amateur, than it is written down, amended (that is, almost spoilt), printed, and then put upon a course of rapid dissemination, to cease only with the utmost bounds of Anglo-Saxondom, perhaps with the world. Meanwhile, the poor author digs away with his hoe, utterly ignorant of his greatness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do ... is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and begin... to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, tha...t is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »